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St Michael

St Michael

Great Cressingham

Norfolk

Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

Mid C15 west tower designed by James Woderofe.

C15 south porch also by James Woderofe.

Mutilated carving of St. Michael in niche.

Moulded south doorway with a late medieval 2-leaf door.

Chancel has eight 2-light windows with simple cusped tracery suggesting a late C13 date.

Exceptional 5-light Perpendicular east window with staggered carved transoms, mouchettes and daggers.

C13 clasping buttresses surmounted by grouped shafts, resembling late C12 and early C13 pier forms, themselves topped with pinnacles.

The south-west respond and bell capital are C13 with grouped shafts

a C14 or C15 heightening re-using the original deeply carved capital.

Restored C15 north aisle roof with roll-moulded principals.

Carved hammers and wooden wall post corbels representing angels, prophets and prelates.

Chancel with four bays of C13 wall arcading consisting of single, practically freestanding, shafts on water holding bases supporting deeply moulded bell capitals and very pointed plain chamfered arches.

Fine C14 multi-cusped piscina.

Jacobean panelling in south aisle and some late-Medieval poppy-head bench ends.

Medieval brasses.